Baphuon

Baphuon
Religion
Deity	Shiva
Location
Location	Angkor Thom
Country	Cambodia
Shown within Cambodia
Geographic coordinates	13°26′37″N 103°51′21″E / 13.44361°N 103.85583°E / 13.44361; 103.85583
Architecture
Creator	Udayadityavarman II
Completed	the mid-11th century

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Pen and watercolor reconstruction of what the temple may have looked in the 11th century by Lucien Fournereau in 1889.

The Baphuon (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបាពួន) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It is located in Angkor Thom, northwest of the Bayon. Also called "golden mountain" (svarnādrī), the Baphuon is built on an artificial hill. The temple was originally dedicated to Shiva and late converted to a Theravada Buddhist temple.^[1] The dating of the temple has been fractious; recent work has shown that it was not built during the reign of Udayādityavarman II, as is popularly reported. In 2015 a French team directly dates four iron crampons integrated into the structure using the AMS Carbon-14 method, revealed the construction was much earlier than thought and can now be considered as the major temple associated with Suryavarman I (1010–1050CE), a ruler which had no temple previously associated with his reign.^[2]